Essays of John Dryden, Band 2Clarendon Press, 1926 |
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... judgment in Poetry , and 5 the candour of your nature , easy to forgive some trivial faults , when they come accompanied with countervailing beauties . But , after all , though these are your equitable claims to a dedication from other ...
... judgment in Poetry , and 5 the candour of your nature , easy to forgive some trivial faults , when they come accompanied with countervailing beauties . But , after all , though these are your equitable claims to a dedication from other ...
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... judgment to fall on Lucan , he fell himself in his attempt ; he performed worse in his Essay of the Civil War than the author of the Pharsalia ; and , avoiding his errors , has made greater of his own . 30 Julius Scaliger would needs ...
... judgment to fall on Lucan , he fell himself in his attempt ; he performed worse in his Essay of the Civil War than the author of the Pharsalia ; and , avoiding his errors , has made greater of his own . 30 Julius Scaliger would needs ...
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... judgment of the age in which he lived . They neither knew good verse , nor loved it ; they were scholars , ' tis true , but they were pedants ; and for a just reward of their pedantic pains , all their translations want to be 15 ...
... judgment of the age in which he lived . They neither knew good verse , nor loved it ; they were scholars , ' tis true , but they were pedants ; and for a just reward of their pedantic pains , all their translations want to be 15 ...
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... judgment of the poet ; if any of so happy a genius be now living , or any future age can produce a man , who , being conversant in the philosophy of Plato , as it is now accommodated to Io Christian use , ( for , as Virgil gives us to ...
... judgment of the poet ; if any of so happy a genius be now living , or any future age can produce a man , who , being conversant in the philosophy of Plato , as it is now accommodated to Io Christian use , ( for , as Virgil gives us to ...
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... judgment , who loves poetry , and understands it . Your thoughts are always so remote from the common way of thinking , that they are , as I may say , of another species than the conceptions of other poets ; yet you go not out of nature ...
... judgment , who loves poetry , and understands it . Your thoughts are always so remote from the common way of thinking , that they are , as I may say , of another species than the conceptions of other poets ; yet you go not out of nature ...
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Seite 270 - I shall say the less of Mr Collier, because in many things he has taxed me justly; and I have pleaded guilty to all thoughts and expressions of mine which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retract them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph ; if he be my friend, as I have given him no personal occasion to be otherwise, he will be glad of my repentance.
Seite 278 - Then said he, Knowest thou wherefore I come unto thee ? and now will I return to fight with the prince of Persia : and when I am gone forth, lo, the prince of Grecia shall come. But I will shew thee that which is noted in the scripture of truth : and there is none that holdeth with me in these things, but Michael your prince.
Seite 264 - ... against it. If the first end of a writer be to be understood, then, as his language grows obsolete, his thoughts must grow obscure — Multa renascentur, quae nunc cecidcre; cadentque Quae nunc sunt in honore vocabula, si volet usus. Quern penes arbitrium est et jus et norma loquendi.
Seite 257 - ... in Chaucer's age. It were an easy matter to produce some thousands of his verses which are lame for want of half a foot and sometimes a whole one, and which no pronunciation can make otherwise.
Seite 270 - House has eaten him up ; but I am sure it has devoured some part of his good manners and civility.
Seite 256 - For this reason, though he must always be thought a great poet, he is no longer esteemed a good writer; and for ten impressions, which his works have had in so many successive years, yet at present a hundred books are scarcely purchased once a twelvemonth; for, as my last Lord Rochester said, though somewhat profanely, Not being of God, he could not stand.
Seite 256 - Chaucer followed Nature everywhere, but was never so bold to go beyond her; and there is a great difference of being poeta and nimis poeta, if we may believe Catullus, as much as betwixt a modest behaviour and affectation. The verse of Chaucer, I confess, is not harmonious to us; but...
Seite 233 - ... whether it will agree with the English idiom: after this, he ought to take the opinion of judicious friends, such as are learned in both languages: and, lastly, since no man is infallible, let him use this licence very sparingly; for if too many foreign words are poured in upon us, it looks as if they were designed not to assist the natives, but to conquer them.
Seite 253 - Tales, their humours, their features, and the very dress, as distinctly as if I had supped with them at the Tabard in Southwark.
Seite 245 - Milton was the poetical son of Spenser, and Mr. Waller of Fairfax, for we have our lineal descents and clans as well as other families.